Last night, we had one of our first actual frustrating conversations with Nia. Well, let me explain. Nia was speaking Tenglish (toddler English). Half of what she was saying was actual words and the rest was Niaspeak. She was playing with her baby, and kept saying the same thing, but when we would say something she would be "No no nooooo Dada!" Finally she said "shoes" and we realized she wanted us to put her babies shoes on (we moved the box with the rest of the babys clothes and she couldn't find it). When we did that, she shook her head yes and went on her business. At the end of the night, she put her baby in her bouncer, kissed her head, said "nite nite", motioned to turn the light off and walked out of the room. You could melt.
Between the daily increasing vocabulary, her sign language and physical gestures we're actually finding it easy to understand her and communicate. She has now even started requesting songs be played again.
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